The best general advice you can get is this:

If you're not willing to bet, fold; if you're not willing to raise; fold. Unless you KNOW THE ODDS of outdrawing, HAVE CALULATED THEM, and are getting the correct calling odds then just fold. It's easy. Click FOLD.

I'm gonna tell you something that most beginners never believe - YOU CAN WIN BIG MONEY BY PLAYING ONLY GOOD CARDS WITH GOOD FLOPS AND BETTING THEM OUT.

I make lots of money playing high stakes poker. I fold bottom pair, I fold AT preflop, I fold Top pair if there's three to a suit and I get called or raised when I bet. I fold when all those around me are calling. I fold like a cheap suit, like a beat dog, like a $3 lawn chair.

95% of the time I only play the BEST CARDS in the BEST POSITIONS with the BEST FLOPS. You can too. top pair crappy kicker is a bad hand, so obviously anything below that is worse.